{"product_id":"louis-dumont-and-hierarchical-opposition-9781571815781","title":"Louis Dumont and Hierarchical Opposition","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tThe work of Louis Dumont, who died in 1998, on India and modern individualism represented certain theoretical advances on the earlier structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss. One such advance is Dumont's idea of hierarchical opposition, which he proposed as a truer representation of indigenous ideologies than Lévi-Strauss's binary opposition. In this book the author argues that, although structuralism is often thought to have gone out of fashion, Dumont's greater concern with praxis and agency makes his own version of structuralism more contemporary. The work of his followers and fellow travelers, as well as his own, indicates that hierarchical opposition is capable of taking structuralism in new and more realistic directions, reminding us that it has never been the preserve of Lévi-Strauss alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Needham’s Development of Hertz\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e The Dumontian Reaction: understanding\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e The Background to Dumont’s Revision in India and Elsewhere\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e The Reception of Hierarchical Opposition\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e The School of Dumont: From Classification to Ritual Analysis\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e Residue, Cosmos and Economics\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e Innocence and Possibility\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Legacies and Lessons\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041424015703,"sku":"9781571815781","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781571815781.jpg?v=1750950222","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/louis-dumont-and-hierarchical-opposition-9781571815781","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}